“Glitz-Lit” Novels Making a Comeback
 December 17, 2009 –
“The blockbuster novel is making a big comeback. Clearly, there’s a new market now for one-word titles summoning up a world of glitz, passion and betrayal – always there is betrayal,” writes
Laura Marcus in
The Independent (UK).
“When journalist
Jessica Ruston decided to
try her hand at fiction, it was hearing a friend say she was hankering ‘for a good old-fashioned bonkbuster’ that set her on this course. ‘As soon as I heard my friend saying that, I knew this was my genre. I started thinking about all the books I grew up loving so much – Riders, Savages, and Scruples, and ideas sprang into my head for a modern version of that kind of chunky, sweeping novel’.”
“The result was Luxury, just out. Heroines don’t have to be likeable for readers to want to live in their world: ‘Remember how addictive Dynasty was? You wouldn’t want to be friends with many of the characters but my God did you want to see what scandalous things they were going to get up to next!’ Ruston has even coined a new term for this revisited genre: glitz-lit.”
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Luxury (Paperback) is available from Amazon.co.uk.
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